![Alexander Oki ‘28 picks up trash in the lower parking lot Feb. 20. According to Keep America Beautiful, the majority of the trash found on both roads and waterways consists of fast food wrappers and packaging, receipts and plastic beverage bottles. Clubs like the National Honor Society (NHS) offer students the opportunity to earn service hours by cleaning up the trash in the parking lots. “[The trash] makes us look very unhygienic and unmotivated to be a proper school,” Emberlyse Vidal ‘28 said. “It makes us look like we just don't care about our students' environments.”](https://rockmediaonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/20260220_1355020-2-1200x904.jpg)
Three, two, one… it’s the final countdown.
Finals for periods one and two begin today, Dec. 18. Each day from Dec. 18 through Dec. 21, there will be two finals, running from 8:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m., then from 9:40 a.m. to 11:10 a.m., with a 10-minute passing period in between. On Thursday, Dec. 21, only period seven final will take place, with the second final exam time slot used for make-up finals.
“[I] make sure to not procrastinate [studying],” Sophia Levesque ‘25 said. “That always makes things more stressful.
Every day, the finals are followed by a 10-minute Seminar check-in and Access as needed for the remainder of the day. There is no school Friday, Dec. 22.
Schedule changes with counselors will also occur today in the upper main hallway from 11:15 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.